#1: Circuit Breaker

Circuit breaker is a design pattern that prevents cascading failures in distributed systems. More details: https://microservices.io/patterns/reliability/circuit-breaker.html and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/circuit-breaker. Circuit breaker implementations: * https://github.com/resilience4j/resilience4j (Java) * http://www.thepollyproject.org/ (.NET) * https://github.com/rubyist/circuitbreaker (Go) * https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/common/circuitbreaker.html (Scala/Akka) * https://github.com/yammer/circuit-breaker-js (JavaScript) This episode was originally twice as long. If you wish to hear full, director's cut version, check out my mailing list: https://256.nurkiewicz.com/newsletter. I will also notify you about new episodes and add some extra content. Suggest your topics: https://github.com/nurkiewicz/256/issues/new/choose